| | | APSA17-201 | | CORST Essay Prize Winner in Psychoanalysis and Culture Speakers: Chair: Lewis A. Kirshner, M.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Presenter &
Prize Winner: Christine Maksimowicz, Ph.D. (Amherst MA)
Title: “Poverty, Parenting, and the Foreclosure of Ordinary Devotion: Rethinking Winnicott Socioanalytically”
This annual prize is awarded for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. The Undergraduate Essay Prize and Courage to Dream Book Prize will also be awarded during this session. In this paper, Dr. Maksimowicz applies the fiction of Toni Morrison and sociologic research into effects of social class and poverty on the developmental process of maternal recognition. She proposes a complex understanding of how economic necessity, pragmatic imperatives, and a desire for respectability shape a style of caregiving that prioritizes “doing” over “being” and can inhibit the development of a child’s unique subjectivity. Audio CDs: 2 | | Audio CD | | $30.00 | | $30.00 | |
| | | APSA17-403 | | Educator’s Symposium: Evolving Child Psychoanalytic Practice Within Local to Global Community Systems Speakers: Chair: Ann Marie Sacramone, M.S.Ed., L.P. (NY, NY)
Presenter: Edward Eismann, Ph.D. (Bronx, NY)
Discussant: Neil Altman, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
This symposium, sponsored by the APsaA Schools Committee, co-chaired by John S. Tieman, Ph.D. and Tillie Garfinkel, M.Ed., will consider evolving ideas of social psychoanalytic practice with children in settings ranging from local (classroom, neighborhood, and village) to global community systems. Three analysts will describe child treatment models that depend on the analyst working in concert with the child’s social systems. Tracing change in the child, community and analyst, participants will ponder about a relational response to our current socio-cultural harms. Dr. Eismann will narrate and illustrate in video his 49 year community practice in the South Bronx stemming from Freudian, Adlerian, and social support theory perspectives. Ms. Sacramone will offer case material from a child-in-community practice grounded on infancy research, and self-psychology. Dr. Altman will discuss his observations of communities internationally that developed unique culturally based therapeutic approaches. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $18.00 | | $18.00 | |
